Cars, Trucks Sold at a Record Pace
In September, but GM Falls Short

DETROIT -- U.S. consumers, drawn by a smorgasbord of cash and financing deals served up by auto companies, continued to buy new cars and trucks at a record pace in September.

According to preliminary figures from Autodata Crop., the seasonally adjusted annualized selling rate rose 3.8% to 17,910,000 from 17,250,000 a year ago. But the U.S. auto market's boom, which some industry officials now think could hit a new record for all of 2000, remained uneven. General Motors Corp. lost ground again in September, while several...